In their place was a long hall, the sort that belonged in a palace or a museum, its walls lined with statues, all of them standing beautifully still in their frost-white draperies. “You!” she yelled, pointing in their direction. She wiped water and dissolving dress out of her eyes, flicking them to the side, and cast wildly about until she spotted Cora and Nadya standing on the shore, mouths open, gaping at her. The girl in the pond didn’t seem to notice, or maybe she just didn’t care. It also seemed to be dissolving, running down her arms in streaks, coming apart at the seams. The girl in the pond rose up sputtering, with algae in her hair and a very confused turtle snagged in the complicated draperies of her dress, which seemed to be the result of someone deciding to hybridize a ball gown with a wedding cake, after dyeing both of them electric pink. That was when the girl fell out of the sky and landed in the middle of the turtle pond with an enormous splash, sending turtles skyward, and drenching both Cora and Nadya in a wave of muddy pond water. Spoiler Warning: Plot details for 'Beneath the Sugar Sky' follow. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests…īeneath the Sugar Sky is a tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.

And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. If she can’t find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest-not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the 'real' world. 3.4 Part IV: This is Where We Change the Worldīeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages.3.3 Part III: Bake Me a Mountain Frost Me a Sky.

3.2 Part II: Into the Halls of the Dead.

Beneath a sugar sky